Quality Technician

AriensCo • Fayetteville, TN

8d • Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Technician provides hands-on quality support to manufacturing operations, ensuring products and processes meet design, customer, and regulatory requirements. The role performs inspections, audits, testing, and measurement activities to verify compliance, identify nonconforming material, and support corrective action and continuous improvement. Working with production and engineering, the technician helps improve process capability, reduce risk, and maintain consistent manufacturing quality.

The position is at AriensCo’s Fayetteville, Tennessee Plant 6. The stated schedule is second shift, 3:00 PM–1:30 AM, Monday through Thursday, with overtime as needed. Starting pay is $20 per hour, plus a $2 shift differential.

AriensCo describes its culture as collaborative, innovative, and community-oriented, with opportunities for continuous training and advancement. Its stated values are Be Honest, Be Fair, Respect the Individual, Keep our Commitments, and Encourage Intellectual Curiosity.

Requirements

• Understand types of measurement, measurement terminology, and measurement scales.
• Have strong knowledge of basic mathematical operations and measurement conversions; be able to solve for x and add or subtract degrees, minutes, and seconds.
• Select appropriate measuring tools and techniques for a given characteristic.
• Know how to measure using surface plate layouts.
• Have basic calibration knowledge.
• Identify and recognize inspection errors and initiate resolution.
• Read and interpret blueprints and understand definitions of critical, major, and minor characteristics.
• Have knowledge of testing methods.
• Identify and report nonconforming material.
• Understand traceability for products, materials, and calibration.
• Know basic quality terms, definitions, and concepts.
• Know basic problem-solving steps: understand the problem, determine root cause, develop and implement solutions, and verify effectiveness.
• Be authorized to work in the United States without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

• Quality Technician or Manufacturing Engineering Technician certificate or diploma from a college or technical school; alternatively, three to six months of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• American Society for Quality (ASQ) certificate.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily process audits to ensure processes follow Ariens standards.
• Complete product audits to verify products are manufactured according to design intent.
• Carry out problem-solving efforts using 8D and A3 methods.
• Eliminate waste in processes using Lean Manufacturing tools and techniques.
• Provide floor support to manufacturing and address obstacles that negatively affect production.
• Inspect components using appropriate equipment against print and/or CAD specifications.
• Learn and apply Ariens and outdoor power equipment industry standards.
• Teach other employees quality processes and methods.
• Identify and process nonconforming material.
• Drive action based on regular review of data and metrics.
• Reduce risk using Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA) tools.
• Raise awareness by posting Quality Alerts.
• Communicate process capability using Statistical Process Control (SPC).
• Verify supplier compliance by reviewing PPAP submissions and/or auditing parts during incoming inspection.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance effective the first day of employment
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA) plan
• 401(k) match and profit-sharing plans
• Life insurance
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
• Short-term disability
• Parental leave
• Onsite Marketplace Care Partners at all locations
• Paid holidays
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition reimbursement and apprenticeship programs
• Safety shoes and safety prescription glasses reimbursement
• Employee Product Purchase Program
• 50% daycare discount at Brillion Early Learning Center
• 10% tuition discount at KinderCare Learning Centers nationwide, excluding Brillion Early Learning Center
• Onsite health clinic at Brillion Campus only
• Nearsite and urgent care clinic options at Brillion Campus only

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed